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A richly illustrated exploration of Balinese culture, rituals, and the island’s unique perception of time. The book delves into religious festivals, art, and the mystical traditions that shape everyd

Vital important WILLIAM DALRYMPLE Perspective shattering CAROLINE SANDERSON Uncovers a world of which few are fully aware COLIN THUBRONFor over 1 400 years Muslims have been an integral part of Europe s story yet their contributions have been pushed to the margins or erased altogether In Muslim Europe award winning author Tharik Hussain restores this forgotten history In a revelatory journey across the continent we tread in the footsteps of the first Muslims who arrived on European soil in 647 AD We travel through Cyprus Sicily Malta Portugal and Spain learning about the continent s great Caliphate culture and Muslim commonwealth encountering red haired European Sultans and Arabic speaking Christian Kings the Sufi lodges of Cyprus and the palaces of Sicily Forgotten Muslim pioneers like Abbas Ibn Firnas gave us flight Ibn Rushd gifted us modern philosophy and the cross fertilisation of faiths and cultures birthed Europe s Christian Renaissance For twelve centuries Muslim Europe was a sanctuary for the continent s Jews Recalling the poignant voices of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut and Abraham Ibn Daoud Jews flourished under Muslim protection triggering the Jewish Golden Age For the first time Muslim Europe lays bare the cause of our collective Islamic amn

Un fascinante recorrido por la poesía americana moderna en busca de sus versos y sus denominadores comunes. América no es una unidad sino un conjunto con algunos rasgos comunes, sin ignorar las grandes diferencias, sobre todo entre la angloparlante y la America Latina. La inclusion de poetas de esas dos Americas en un mismo trabajo es una decision y no una obviedad. Los tratados, los manuales, los ordenamientos historicos y nacionales o subcontinentales descartan esa opcion. Sin embargo, desde Poe y Whitman, los primeros poetas plenamente modernos de America, hasta Zurita; o desde William Carlos Williams y Ginsberg hasta Sergio Raimondi, el aclamado profesor y poeta Edgardo Dobry forja en el fascinante recorrido de este ensayo un canon renovado de la poesia americana; un arbol genealogico de los ultimos doscientos años que hunde sus raices en insolitas correspondencias a traves de todo el continente. De aquellos padres fundadores hasta hoy, ¿cuales son los rasgos que unen a las dos Americas? La constelacion de voces que se encuentra en este libro señala un claro vinculo de impulsos e inquietudes compartidos. En los versos de poetas de Estados Unidos, Argentina, Nicaragua, Chile, Peru, Cuba y Mexico encontramos algunas respuestas y, al mismo tiempo, nuevos interrogantes.

Bestselling historian and social media sensation Alice Loxton embarks on an epic walk retracing the funeral route of England s most forgotten Queen and uncovering historical secrets along the way

This is the story of the superbly elegant early eighteenth century Pallant House in Chichester It s the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitafields built for a Huguenot silk weaver ultimately a synagogue It s also the story of among others a row of two up two downs in Toxteth a block of flats in London s East End and what Ideal Home s magazine described in 1926 as Britain s first modern house in Northampton Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries At the same time as Dan Cruickshank shows they have much to tell us about the lives of their first occupants their aspirations their struggles their place within society and relationship with their local community The English House brilliantly weaves these two strands together blending architectural and social history to create a series of brilliantly observed portraits of fascinating buildings

L?exili gironí de 1939 va donar lloc a una comunitat diversa i activa a Mèxic. Professionals qualificats, treballadors manuals, militants polítics i famílies senceres van saber construir xarxes de s

Indispensable para conocer la historia de Europa desde finales de la segunda guerra mundial hasta la actualidad. Después de los horrores de la primera mitad del siglo XX, que Ian Kershaw describió e

Una historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundial hasta nuestros días. Ian Kershaw, uno de los más prestigiosos historiadores actuales, revive la historia de Europa desde la primera guerra mundi